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Vocational vs. Professional — What's the Difference?

Vocational vs. Professional — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Vocational and Professional

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Vocational

Of or relating to a vocation or vocations
Vocational counseling.

Professional

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns a living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.

Vocational

Relating to, providing, or undergoing training in a special skill to be pursued in a trade
Vocational students learning to operate a lathe.

Professional

Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession
Lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.

Vocational

Of or pertaining to a vocation.
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Professional

Conforming to the standards of a profession
Professional behavior.

Vocational

(of education) That provides a special skill rather than academic knowledge.

Professional

Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career
A professional writer.

Vocational

Of or relation to a vocation or occupation; especially providing or undergoing training in special skills;
Vocational school
Vocational students learning to repair a motor

Professional

Performed by persons receiving pay
Professional football.

Professional

Having or showing great skill; expert
A professional repair job.

Professional

A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.

Professional

One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation
Hired a professional to decorate the house.

Professional

A skilled practitioner; an expert.

Professional

A person who belongs to a profession

Professional

A person who earns their living from a specified activity

Professional

A prostitute

Professional

A reputation known by name

Professional

An expert

Professional

Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

Professional

That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.

Professional

(by extension) Expert.

Professional

Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.

Professional

Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; - opposed to amateur.

Professional

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Professional

A person engaged in one of the learned professions

Professional

An athlete who plays for pay

Professional

An authority qualified to teach apprentices

Professional

Engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood;
The professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications
Began her professional career after the Olympics
Professional theater
Professional football
A professional cook
Professional actors and athletes

Professional

Of or relating to or suitable as a profession;
Professional organizations
A professional field such as law

Professional

Characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;
Professional conduct
Professional ethics
A thoroughly professional performance

Professional

Of or relating to a profession;
We need professional advice
Professional training
Professional equipment for his new office

Professional

Engaged in by members of a profession;
Professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching

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